My wood lampshade

[planeur [OP]]

• I began to cut my 8 pieces of wood , without knowing yet how I will do the top part of each 8 pieces.

As on the photo, will it be straigh as on the actual shade in stained glass



or the final 2" with an angle ???? This way will be lot more difficult , with the cutting at an different angle than the buttom part.



So what are your suggestions or ideas ?
Those pieces will be around 1/8" thick or more. First cuts today from a big piece of cherry, left from my rocking chair.







I had cut the 8 pieces of the shade , in cherry , and did some tests to cut those 8 pieces at the 67.5° on each side, for fixing them together



And to cut them with the right angle, I have to used an angle piece




And cut at the right lengh



and made a cutting test with the right angle of 67.5 °



Question : would you have an easy way to glue these 8 pieces together to make the octagon ?

I would think that I will have to make a support so the 2 parts to be glued are well supported! But before gluing, I will have to cut at the scroolsaw the patterns !

Like it very much, good challenge !

À suivre

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[nugsthecat]

Would you be able to glue it up using tape like you would a mitred box, do the whole assembly at once with blue tape or packing tape across the joints?

[planeur [OP]]

Yes Craig, it will be probably one of tries , will see after my angle cuts of all the pieces.
And It will be after I finished my intarsia work on them.

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[sancyk]

Maybe cyanoacrylate would work and you would not need to clamp.

It might depend on how you plan to finish the wood since the cyanoacrylate could seep into the fibres and prevent a stain from soaking in at the glue joint.

[nugsthecat]

Maybe cyanoacrylate would work and you would not need to clamp.

It might depend on how you plan to finish the wood since the cyanoacrylate could seep into the fibres and prevent a stain from soaking in at the glue joint.

That's a great idea, and reminds me of a tip I had read and used when I built some hanging lanterns. Use a couple drops of CA glue at each end of a small glue up and a regular bead of wood glue between. The CA dries super fast and acts as a clamp essentially while the wood glue dries.

[planeur [OP]]

Another step ...

So I cut the 8 pieces at the right assembly angle 67.5°, was not so easy cutting each side at the miter saw ,had to be very carefull because of the thin thickness of the wood, and special adjusment for both side angle.



With the 8 pieces assemble like that, I will draw the patterns



and..... tadam ...... first look of what it is going to look






And probably I will use this tape when it will be glue time , what do you think ?



Very happy till today!

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[sancyk]

I guess you could lay your pieces flat in that half-moon pattern, apply your tape to one side, flip the piece over, apply the wood glue to the joints, and then roll your shade into shape.

but....

doing a dry run is always easy. Doing the same with wood glue, which makes things slippery and then dries quickly, may complicate things a bit.

I'd still try using cyanoacrylate. Either at the ends as NUGS suggested, or as the only adhesive.

[planeur [OP]]

Now I have to decide what are the patterns I will put on it, looking partialy as my Mother did on the base in 1930 😲 😁 Will be as this one



If you have some ideas I am interested !

Need your advise ....😉
How would you do to hold the center part of the birds , once I cut it from one of the 8 parts. I want to cut only the thickness of the blade.
I tought putting a small piece of plexiglass glue behind .



What do think about it ?
You have surely others ideas....😉

First test of cutting and light behind....

without light



with light



so completed cutting around the bird and flower would need something at the back.
I could cut a larger stroke to be more visible, or it is OK.
And I will also add some flowers and patterns , so the light may be more visible.

What do you think ....😉

Merci !

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